Charles Crane
Charles R. Crane orchestrated donations to the MBL from Rockefeller, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Institution in 1923 that established an endowment for the MBL and enabled the construction of new buildings and a library. Crane himself provided continuing gifts to the Laboratory of $20,000 a year, and paid for the construction of Crane Laboratory in 1914, the first permanent building at the MBL.
The Photographic Archive: http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/. Special Collections Research Center. The University of Chicago Library. Identifier: apf3-01907.
Charles R. Crane (center) with John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (right) and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (left) at a University of Chicago event
Marine Biological Laboratory Archive
A note from Charles Crane to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. celebrating their success in raising funds for the endowment and expansion of the MBL. Crane writes: “I believe now that all of the motions have been made assuring us a fine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s Hole.”
The University of Chicago Press Archives. Box 127. Special Collections Research Center. The University of Chicago Library.
The MBL endowment was announced in a press release at the University of Chicago.
Charles Otis Whitman Collection, Box 1. Special Collections Research Center. The University of Chicago Library.
After the agreement to affiliate with the Carnegie Institution, Whitman expressed his extreme displeasure and fears in a handwritten note to Edwin Conklin, a Princeton embryologist and longstanding colleague of Whitman’s at the MBL. Whitman writes: “Let our board stand just as it is, and let us keep the Laboratory as its own master, if we can find the support that will enable us to do so.”
